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The best of WoW.com: November 3-10, 2009 {Joystiq}
Nov 11th 2009 3:55AM I'm a WoW pet collector (107 as of this evening), and for all the collectors I know of, it made no difference. It was a nice bonus if you like it.
The reasoning was simple: There all ready is a big market for pets, via the TCG cards. The thing is Blizz wasn't making much on it. So they decided to get more. So they offered two pets, and offered a pet with a charity donation with an Organization they've worked with before.
Will there be purchasable mounts? Wouldn't be shocked. Tabards? Sure. Noth of those are in the TCG loot cards all ready. Titles? Very possible. All of these things are vanity. Players don't get any bennies using a Spectral Tiger (a CCG pet) over a Swift Brown Horse (an epic mount that costs nearly nothing).
Anything more? No. No XP. No gold. No items with stats. They've been clear and firm on this, and I see no reason not to believe them.
There's no slippery slope, it's just a way for Blizz to cash a bit into people who like non-unique unique items .
The best of WoW.com: November 3-10, 2009 {Joystiq}
Nov 11th 2009 3:46AM Presumably, if one goes to WoW.com, they're a fan and player of WoW... why wouldn't they support them generally?
And if you think it's all slobbering, you didn't pay any attention what so ever. This Pet Store has been massively controversial. So controversial, that one of the WoW devs went on a well-known podcast about the game (The Instance, by the guy who does My Extra Life, Scott Johnson) to defend and explain Blizz' reasoning and tell about where they want it to go.
John Carmack: Working with Apple not always easy {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 10th 2009 3:36AM Well I'd suggest Jobs isn't wrong. Gamers are fickle, demanding, and short-sighted. Not good customers at all. Just go to the World of Warcraft boards sometime and see the crying over minor changes - people canceling subscriptions and such over minor changes.
Gamers are a pain to deal with. Jobs is right not to cater to them.
Star Trek Online shipping on Stardate 63554.5 (Feb. 2, 2010) {Joystiq}
Nov 9th 2009 11:36PM No Mac version, no sale.
Sad, I'd love to give this a try while waiting for Cataclysm.
Patch 3.3 PTR: Shaman Tier 10 {WoW}
Nov 9th 2009 3:32PM Well ya. Ever try to wear Mail pants? Piiiiiinches!!
Activision-Blizzard makes lots of money, no update on Blizzard earnings {WoW}
Nov 7th 2009 1:23AM How long does it take to level an alt 1-80? 40 hours?
A faction transfer change cost 30$. unless your time is worth less then 75 cents per hour, I think you do well to do that if all you want is a character on the opposite faction.
Patch 3.3 PTR: Get a pug when you PUG {WoW}
Nov 5th 2009 4:16PM a good player -especially healer or Tank - can carry a lousy group. Do what you're best at and grind it out.
A WoW player's guide to microtransactions {WoW}
Nov 5th 2009 1:52PM But there's no smoke. Smoke would be if Blizz was offering items with tangental game unbalancing - say badges for sale. They aren't. There's no smoke, no fire. Granted, there are a pile of sticks and a zippo, but that does not a fire make.
A WoW player's guide to microtransactions {WoW}
Nov 5th 2009 1:48PM Well now you're using a completely different argument, about the charity portion.
And ya don't think it's kind of silly to say "Well so many people can't have it..."? it's a pet in a game, it's meaningless. I bought it because I love these pets (106 and counting...) and I love the Pandaren joke in the game, so I coughed up a 5$ donation to MaW and 5 to Blizz and I'm enjoying it throughly.
I work my butt off to afford the things I like. Saying "The economy is bad" is a really silly way to criticize a company for a completely optional service.
A WoW player's guide to microtransactions {WoW}
Nov 5th 2009 1:31PM Pets, Tabards and 100/280 Mounts I have no problem with. All complete effluvia to the game.
Dances, I would, because that was a feature that was promised in the expansion and I think it would be kind of schmucky to make people pay for it. I do not expect to see this.
Once you start getting into items with stats though I don't see it. If they did do it, I would be very annoyed, and would never buy any. But I don't think I'd ever hapepn. Blizz knows how to keep this game going, and they know that allowing people to buy game-altering items would be bad. Blizz isn't stupid for goddsake.
Now I don't doubt, some of their partners on the Activision side have suggested it, even asked for it. But I just don't see it happening knowing what I know about Blizzard.
